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IT is stated by ‘Russia Today Press Service that the average annual grain crop in the U.S.S.R. for 1937, 1938 and 1939, notwithstanding the severe droughts in the two latter years, amounted to more than 100 million tons, exceeding the 1913 harvest, the best in pre-revolutionary Russia, by one third. The grain crop of 1940 amounted approximately to 1121 million tons. There are 243,000 collective farms in the Soviet Union, embracing 18,800,000 peasant households, or 94 per cent of the total number of peasant households in the country. The Soviet Government has handed over to the collective farms for their free use in perpetuity 940 million acres of land, which represents an average of 50 acres per household. It is estimated that Soviet agriculture employs more than half a million tractors, nearly 170,000 harvester-combines and 200,000 lorries.
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Soviet Agriculture. Nature 147, 354 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147354b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147354b0